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necessary and boring things
most of the time hides somewhere else
humour and precision
Translated from the Arabic by Issa J
with excerpt from Season of Migration to the North
From a Mobile Home Martin Stannard necessary and boring thingsReading these poems, one comes to suspect that the image of a truly safe and ennobling nation must be that of a mobile home; intimate, but open, playful, self aware, and moving. Archer has written its lexicon out of idioms of displaced beings; remapping of boundaries would require a full transformation of English; of its grammar, its words, its punctuations, its letters, its spacing on the printed page. Archer joins Austin Clark, John Hewitt, Eavan
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